- Northern Manitoba, and specifically
the town of Churchill is known as the "Polar Bear Capital
of the World". During the summer months, the bears have
no sea ice to hunt on, so they are forced onshore for several
months. I teamed up with bear expert Matthias Breiter and we
went out onto the tundra, south of Churchill at Nanuk Lodge where
we observed the bears on the ground, sometimes up close. We also
collected numerous bear scat samples that we later brought to
the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg for analysis to determine
what these bears are eating in the summer when their preferred
food, seals, are not available.
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- We were filming an episode of Angry
Planet.
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